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A New Skill Horizon for
Apparel Sector
The apparel sector is quite labour intensive. For every Rs 1 crore of investment, about 275 people
get directly employed and another 125 people are indirectly employed. After the agriculture
sector, the apparel sector offers maximum employment opportunities. However there are many
challenges facing the skill development in our country...
The Hon’ble Finance Minister budget speech in 2010 had
announced to launch a new scheme in Textiles Sector envisaging
skill development of 30 lakh persons in 5 years. The Ministry
of Textiles, Govt. of India selected ATDC as a Nodal Agency
Initially in Tamil Nadu in October 2010 for implementing the
Integrated Skill Development Scheme (ISDS) later, on a Pan-
India basis from April 2011. ATDC has been given the mandate
of training 1.72 lakh people for the apparel sector in the next 5
years.
Since October 2010, ATDC has enrolled over 41,000 candidates
against the target of 48,000 till 31st March 2013 to provide basic
training, advance training in current and emerging manufacturing
technologies, re-training, skill upgradation, entrepreneurship
development and Training to Trainers to cover all facets of skill
development under the SMART Training Project.
The major achievements so far include:
Creation of Brand ‘SMART’ for Shopfloor
Courses
Our field studies and discussions with the apparel industry
doyens and potential candidates and their parents revealed that
textile and apparel industry has been passing through turbulent
times and diminishing attractiveness of industry made it slip out
of top of the mind of potential candidates. There were also issues
of youth being attracted by MGNREGA scheme etc.
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